you also can’t explain to someone that the exact same behavior, if done by a male, would be "normal and not “bossy” (or another b-word), that the exact same behavior done in public by couples isn’t “rubbing our faces in it” or not depending on whether the people are of the same gender or not. Or why a local superintendent has a t-shirt hanging in his office saying “we’re worth-less” because based on a calculation from the 70s each student has had about $200 each less spent on their education every year (so $2,400 less in books, less teachers, etc) than schools 5 minutes away and why he’s trying to break state law and access money in savings to keep from firing even more teachers. That looking from his schools to ones you can drive to without realizing you entered other towns makes a joke of the “separate but equal” concept. And no, funding was not cut due to tests, just state rules. Based on incomes of residents from the 70s and never redone…
btw the t-shirt was given to him by students acknowledging that he was fighting for them. Due to budget he was supposed to walk into that meeting saying how many teachers they’d lose in a district where a few schools have the families with the children most likely to fall through the cracks if they can’t get help from the school and said “the state wants us to hold this much in reserve with no planned use for it, I want to use a small percentage of it that still doesn’t come up to what the other districts get per child, once.” Needless to say, the state’s threatening to fire him and pull his teaching license.
Was it racism? Or was it just one kid teasing another. Now that you have told him it bothers you he will continue for no other reason. Not eveything is racial folks when it comes to black and white. You have the power to decide how you react.
Racism has never gone away. Lately, it’s coming out of the woodwork where it’s been hiding. Lots of well-meaning white folks don’t recognize racism when they see it. I’m a 72 year old white woman. I know I’ve grown up in a racist society and that it’s still buried deep inside me. I try to recognize it in myself when it raises its ugly head, but I know it’s so prevalent that sometimes I’m totally blind to it. Some of the folks making comments here have some reading to do. Start with The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
cgale42 over 9 years ago
Unfortunately it isn’t just racism.
kattbailey over 9 years ago
you also can’t explain to someone that the exact same behavior, if done by a male, would be "normal and not “bossy” (or another b-word), that the exact same behavior done in public by couples isn’t “rubbing our faces in it” or not depending on whether the people are of the same gender or not. Or why a local superintendent has a t-shirt hanging in his office saying “we’re worth-less” because based on a calculation from the 70s each student has had about $200 each less spent on their education every year (so $2,400 less in books, less teachers, etc) than schools 5 minutes away and why he’s trying to break state law and access money in savings to keep from firing even more teachers. That looking from his schools to ones you can drive to without realizing you entered other towns makes a joke of the “separate but equal” concept. And no, funding was not cut due to tests, just state rules. Based on incomes of residents from the 70s and never redone…
kattbailey over 9 years ago
btw the t-shirt was given to him by students acknowledging that he was fighting for them. Due to budget he was supposed to walk into that meeting saying how many teachers they’d lose in a district where a few schools have the families with the children most likely to fall through the cracks if they can’t get help from the school and said “the state wants us to hold this much in reserve with no planned use for it, I want to use a small percentage of it that still doesn’t come up to what the other districts get per child, once.” Needless to say, the state’s threatening to fire him and pull his teaching license.
BillWa over 9 years ago
Was it racism? Or was it just one kid teasing another. Now that you have told him it bothers you he will continue for no other reason. Not eveything is racial folks when it comes to black and white. You have the power to decide how you react.
William Taylor over 9 years ago
I’m just really, really tired of hearing about racism right now, and getting another dose of the lecture in the funnies is not cool. Sigh………
renewed1 over 9 years ago
But don’t you know that only whites can be guilty of racism? Jesse Jackson said so.
renewed1 over 9 years ago
The more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Too bad that this isn’t true of all races.
renewed1 over 9 years ago
Let’s see. Yesterday, hands up, don’t shoot (not even the DOJ bought that one). Today we get to read about racism. Time to delete antother comic.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
renewed1: whooziss wants to sweep it back under the rug and you sound like you’re talking under a sheet. So leave, already and good riddance.
StoicLion1973 over 9 years ago
Uhuru could just get Herb to punch “Carl” in the face. Of course, the last time Herb punched someone due to racism, Herb was wrong.
safistikaytdlayd over 9 years ago
Well Said, Mr. Bentley!!!
connie over 9 years ago
Racism has never gone away. Lately, it’s coming out of the woodwork where it’s been hiding. Lots of well-meaning white folks don’t recognize racism when they see it. I’m a 72 year old white woman. I know I’ve grown up in a racist society and that it’s still buried deep inside me. I try to recognize it in myself when it raises its ugly head, but I know it’s so prevalent that sometimes I’m totally blind to it. Some of the folks making comments here have some reading to do. Start with The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.